Historically, the portrayal of women in comics has been a frustrating one, with female characters often relegated to the role of love interest, helper, or easily reformed adversary. However, Mike Madrid’s insightful new work, Vixens,... Read More

Though certainly the most novelesque of this group, Jamie’s Got a Gun is far too important a story to be excluded. Seventeen-year-old Jamie lives in poverty on the wrong side of town with a precocious younger sister and an overworked... Read More

This gorgeous collection of twenty-five sea-based comics has something for everyone: pirates, selkies, aliens, talking fish, lighthouse tenders, and sea monsters. The stories in Waterlogged: Tales from the Seventh Sea range from the... Read More

Joel Christian Gill’s Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History is another must-have to add to school reading lists. Gill’s work, named after the Billie Holliday song, tells the fascinating real life stories of nine... Read More

An unhappy teen tries to figure out where he belongs in the world and forms a band. Sound familiar? Yeah, well, in this one, the band is Nirvana, the unhappy teen is Kurt Cobain, oh, and did we mention it’s a rocking graphic novel and... Read More

Don’t think we’ve forgotten the young’uns. Luke Pearson’s newest addition to the Hilda series, "Hilda and the Black Hound", is the perfect book to get kids hooked on comics. Blue-haired Hilda is back in a fabulously imaginative... Read More

There’s something about incorporating visual imagery that makes history so much more tangible. And Miné Okubo has done just that in order to bring history to life in "Citizen 13660". Originally published in 1946, "Citizen 13660" is a... Read More

Sam Alden has compiled two gorgeous, nearly wordless stories in "It Never Happened Again". “Hawaii 1997” tells the story of a mystical, moonlit encounter on a beach between a young boy named Sam and an unnamed young girl who leaves... Read More